Democracy and political parties: On the uneasy relationships between participation, competition and representation

Party Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 663-683

  Rahat, Gideon ^a   Hazan, Reuven Y ^a   Katz, Richard S ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate selection; Competition; Israel; Participation; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349143364     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068808093405     Document Type: Article

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